Palaeolimnology of Lake Sapanca and identification of historic earthquake signals, Northern Anatolian Fault Zone (Turkey)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 991-1005

  Schwab, Markus J ^a,b   Werner, Petra ^a,c   Dulski, Peter ^b   McGee, Edward ^d   Nowaczyk, Norbert R ^b   Bertrand, Sébastien ^a,e   Leroy, Suzanne A G ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES; EVENT LAYERS; FAULT ZONES; GRAIN SIZES; IN CORES; LAKE SAPANCA; NUTRIENT LEVELS; PALAEOLIMNOLOGY; PREHISTORIC EARTHQUAKES; SEDIMENT DEPOSITIONS; SHORT CORES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CESIUM; LAKES; LEAD; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT ZONE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLATE MOTION; SIGNAL;

EURASIA; SAPANCA LAKE; TURKEY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 67349136797     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.018     Document Type: Article

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